The Healthy Habits Challenge is a 30 day initiative where students can track 6 healthy habits on an online platform. Data is sent weekly to teachers. The Healthy Habits notes are: healthy eating, physical activity, screen time, water intake, sleep time, and mental health (journaling). Challenges are run three times per year and classes or whole schools can sign up. The entire challenge is turnkey and all resources are FREE. The challenges are supported by our team, our resources, and prizes can include athlete visits, gym banners for most active schools, and much more. The goal of the challenges are to instil healthy habits at the elementary school age and allow the students to learn about accountability and goal setting while providing data on progress.

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Connecting With Nature is aligned with Acting Today, Shaping Tomorrow, the Ontario
Ministry of Education’s policy framework for environmental education. It is designed
to help students understand how their daily choices affect nature. There are 16 cross-
curricular lessons in the educational resource, each comprising idea / activity-based
learning that inspires environmental stewardship in both the classroom and beyond,
culminating in a celebration of all they have learned. In addition, students have the
opportunity, through inquiry-based learning, to create their own “class foundation”
focused on their collective interests and actions.

This resource includes five cross-curricular lessons, each comprising idea/activity-based
learning that inspires environmental stewardship in both the classroom and beyond. These
lessons are suitable for students in grades seven and eight. There is an indoor and outdoor
component to most lessons. Teacher tips are provided as well as guiding questions,
reflection questions, and inspirational quotes.
This resource will help your students discover that, collectively, they can make a difference by
taking a conscious and active role in protecting nature. They will have opportunities to share
what they are learning with their fellow students, families, and community members.

Children need to play — especially outdoors. Direct, unstructured, and creative contact with nature allows children autonomy over their own outdoor experiences. Such experiences help them gain empathy for nature and their local surroundings, and understand their connections to the natural world. Outdoor play doesn’t take away from other learning — it enhances other learning. In the following pages, you’ll find ideas and activities to help connect kindergarten students with the outdoors through play. These activities have been designed to encourage wonder, curiosity, and discussion. They can easily be modified for slightly older children as well.

I followed a student outside and captured an ordinary moment. I reflected on what I saw. I talked to another teacher for their thoughts. I talked to the parent of the student for their thoughts. I connected his learning with the curriculum and thought about what I would do in the classroom to further his learning and the learning of others. A pedagogical narration is the process and framework I used to make learning visible.

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How do you capture and share authentic learning moments and then add reflections and involve parents and other educators in the process? Use a pedagogical narration to make learning and thinking more visible for students, teachers, and parents. This sample explains the steps and shows an example you can follow with one of your students.

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Link to Laura Candler's File Cabinet on Cooperative Learning: Cooperative learning is a powerful teaching strategy that's more than just a passing fad. Research has shown that when implemented properly, students in cooperative learning classrooms outperform their peers in traditional classrooms. The key is knowing how to implement the strategies to foster interaction while making sure all students are held accountable. Dr. Spencer Kagan developed the "structural" approach to cooperative learning, and I've found it to be extremely effective. I highly recommend his book Cooperative Learning which is available from Amazon.com.